don lemon tonight live in from ukraine starts a right now. hi, laura. how are you? >> i am good! the question is how are you over there. what we are seeing is unbelievable. what is it like in person?

it is surreal that is the way to put it. the church bells are going off right now, by the way. again, we are also watching things at home. i got to watch a little bit today between doing my shots she. judge ketanji brown jackson and her confirmation hearings i started watching and i text a friend back home and said she is the american dream. she is the american dream. she took advantage of the american educational system.

it is really something to watch especially and all the years of the court and not having a black woman on the court. >> it was something to behold today, that is for sure. i look forward on top of all you mentioned but it really is and a way to think about what you are experiencing in ukraine particularly is the fight for democracy. part of our democracy, as you know, involves having a system of checks and balances, having a court like the supreme court of the united states. to be able to actually hold people accountable to the constitution. it feels awfully surreal in a quiet tragedy and seeing what is happening here and in ukraine when we know what is at stake in a democracy that is in peril. it is unbelievable. >> very well put. we are watching it from overseas and at home. laura, i will see you tomorrow night. thanks so much have a good one. this is don lemon tonight. this is don lemon tonight. i am here in western ukraine where i spent the day talking

to some of the people forced to flee their homes to come here. meantime, president joe biden is confirming russia has used hypersonic missiles in ukraine. sources tell cnn the u.s. hasn't been able to determine if russia even has a top commander leading the war. that at the pentagon says there is clear evidence russian forces are committing war crimes. russia claims within 62,000 residents of mario paul have been evacuated. but, to russia, they cannot immediately verify those but they have been taken to areas against their will. >> hard-working the city is being destroyed and being reduced to ashes but it will survive. >> that, as local authorities is at least 200,000 people are sheltering here in lviv.

everywhere you go you meet refugees here. >> i don't need anything. i just want to be alive and safe. >> it is a place of relative safe with the bread any moment on the our could be followed by air sirens. in kyiv instruction curfew is in effect until wednesday morning after a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping center. deadly shrapnel hitting nearby apartment buildings killing at least 8 people. russia claims the shopping center was hiding rocket launchers. ukraine has dismissed the claims.

>> i have to warn you, this video is very difficult to watch. russian troops opening fire on protesters . >> seen bleeding after being shot. he was reportedly hospitalized. we will update you on all of that. we are live in ukraine and in washington, d.c. i want to go to our international correspondent. sam kiley is life for us sam kiley is live for us. what is the situation on the ground? >> once again here we have had one of these pinpoints accurate long-range vigor missiles into the city. this hit a residential area and hit more specifically a shopping mall, a very large shopping mall causing an

enormous amount of damage and wreaking havoc across the northern area of town. it is not that far from the front lines. i was in a similar location a couple of days ago where a missile had been shot out of the sky. these are very damaging missiles. probably resulting to using these because the russian forces have been pushed back from the outskirts to ukrainian counter attack. we are now seeing a lot more of these attempts to use the missiles. some of them get shot down and some of them get through. this is a part of the ongoing attempts to head out. the bombardment is going on but they are clearly getting

better. these very specifically a mobile missiles. >> you said russia put out a video showing ukrainian weapons a system but ukraine is denying that? >> they have completely dismissed it say in if this a video this is a video the russians put out this was a location of an arm stamp. if it was a location being used for multiple rocket launching systems they would have been secondary explosions. this was an adviser to the president saying if this were a place it would have been secondary explosion and a great deal more devastation.

locals did not report any secondary explosions but these things are very difficult to get to, ultimately. i mean that quite literally. both sides are operating income in the air, and around civilian areas. it is very difficult for the ukrainians, for example, who are fighting to protect an urban area not to have military equipment co-located near buildings. that is just a fact of life. if you put in pressure and going to defend it from the city. it goes into a pretty gray area as to whether or not they could be accused of hiding the weapons deliberately among civilian areas. >> ivan, president zelenskyy said the city is being reduced to ashes. is spoke to people who fled the city. what do we know about what is happening there? >> the people who are fortunate

enough to escape. cowering in their basement for weeks without electricity, without heat, running water without internet or cell phone coverage. in a news vacuum, while being pummeled by russian artillery and airstrikes and i even say by warships, pounding the city, take a listen to an excerpt >> one day a shell exploded as he stood in line for water. >> the last one was killed.

we were making the grade for them. >> finally, it was all too much. >> the last day i saw my father because my mother was completely destroyed mentally. the last day i saw my father and he begged me please leave somewhere. escape this and he was crying. spam i they are trying to get convoys of buses to help evacuate civilians who have been trapped there. the people who have escaped there were more than 3000 according to ukrainian officials

who got out today but it is a dangerous journey. and at the ukrainian local official says there are a number of children 4 in the hospital, 2 in critical condition because of two separate incidents involving cars that were escaping coming under fire. this is dangerous. it is dangerous for the people trapped inside and it is dangerous for them to try to get out. meanwhile this modern-day siege of the city that had a population of 400,000 people before the war began, continues. >> ivan, those 62,000 residents who were reported the evacuated to russia, what do you know about them? >> the russian military says they have taken 60,000+ people to russia and i have received safety there. ukrainians are saying hey, those people are being taken

against their will to nearby russia. it is hard to tell who is telling the truth. frankly, if we were able to talk to some of those people, not sure how comfortable they would feel to speak openly. i can tell you about the observations and what some of the people who escaped from mariupol said to me. it is geographically close to russia. it is a russian-speaking city. has one person put it, he was culturally close to russia. he felt himself a russian perhaps more than he felt like a citizen of ukraine. that is until, this man put it to me, russia began bombarding his home and destroying his city. then he said after i witnessed that i became much more ukrainian. he was furious that the russian military invaded and decided to destroy his home .

is a soviet era a steel factory which still exists today but was pretty much destroyed by this bombardment. there may be some people who sympathize and who may have wanted to go to russia to escape the bombardment of frankly get anywhere to escape living through the there. i do not think you can underestimate the amount of anger from people who have been subjected to quite friendly world war ii style tactics of decimating their city in an effort to try to push out the ukrainian defenders from that city. i might add, there are ukrainian forces inside. the have refused russian demands. they claim to be hitting russian tanks and troops and even a gunship and then thereby

city. we do not know how many civilians remain hiding in the basements of their shattered homes right now. >> it is interesting. some of the people have relatives in russia and they said their relatives couldn't understand why they didn't flee to russia and they were perplexed by that. why would we want to flee to the very people bombing them. their sentiment is exactly the same. they said i have never hated anyone before but i certainly hate what the russians are doing and they wish ill will on them and they want them to stop. with thank you. would really appreciate both of you. >> be usc's clear evidence russian forces are committing more crimes in their invasion of ukraine. i want to bring in cedric

layton. colonel, thank you. i appreciate your joining us this evening. let's start with mariupol. more than three weeks into this invasion, russia can't take the city but they are reducing it to rubble. do you think we will see the strategy. >> i do think so. i think what we see in mariupol is kind of this classic local encirclement. when you go out to kyiv he sees similar things happening here, kharkiv they had the experience there and potentially in the future, odesa, i think we will see some situations that are very similar to what is happening . that is a disaster for any urban area and for any of the people living there and are still remaining.

tell us what these -- what are they due to the moderate moderate army? >> because slow down like you wouldn't believe. if you ever looked at a muddy field and you walked across it you find you are going a lot slower than you would if the ground were dry and solid. what you see here is a situation where these fields right here of peer to be flooded. that is one part of it. if they are trying to go from here to there and they are coming this way it would be pretty hard for them to pass through this. let's get a closer look.

you see here of, a much broader area that appears to be inundated this is going to slow down anybody going to the area. if there is a low-lying area right in here this could easily be flooded as the dam waters go over this. that means all the tanks stop the armored personnel stop. it becomes overly difficult. the same thing happens to the germans in world war ii. what is going on with the russians here and what could potentially go on with them is very much like this. it could really impede their progress and efforts to encircle kyiv. up next, escape from kharkiv. when the russians rolled and he refused to leave documenting

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kharkiv has faced heavy strikes and continues to suffer from attacks pick my next guest is a kharkiv resident. he has been documenting his experience in a very personal diary . dmytro joins me now. i am so glad you're here. thank you. we appreciate it. you have lived through but you were able to flee kharkiv. what was it like to get out? are you safe where you are right now? >> hello, yes. it is about 100 kilometers from kharkiv.

>> kharkiv was one of the first cities . on the first day of spring, the bloody russian world unleashed a controlled so airstrike on freedom square, one of the largest in europe. the regional administrative building was severely damaged. when a jet passes by all of our house including the basement, starts trembling yesterday after one such flight we heard an explosion close. it is still hard to perceive the jet whistle as something normal. i feel like i will never stop hearing it for the rest of my life and every russell in any sound. explained to people the terror you have experienced as the city came under attack.

>> it is really the most horrible thing because when you are in the basement you hear this whistle and it is really horrible. when we came here to the next region, i was afraid of every sound, like sounds of the car because i still remember the sounds of fighter jets and explosions. it is really the most hard to realize. >> go on. >> we woke up and it was really a horrible. i still remember after the sound we usually hear

something like explosions but here, we heard it for two minutes and then it became quiet. we still remember it. >> i want to read something else. the invaders failed to take over the city with tanks and armored vehicles. they want to demoralize us, break us, spread panic, destroy every place in our city that is dear to us and erase our memory. the russian strategy is to break ukraine, demoralize people. what is your message to putin? >> yes. the ground operation failed so they try to demoralize people now. they want to spread panic

among our people but we still believe we will win. we have a strong military and we hope the u.s. will support us with fighter jets. >> we are now fighting against one of the most powerful military in the world. our country is 20 times smarter than russia but we are still fighting all of europe right now. >> you say your grandpa cannot leave because he is too weak to

leave. or grandma will not leave him. are you able to talk to them? can you get them out? >> i am talking to them every day and it is quite noisy right now. they can't sleep because, for example, if you days ago, rockets fell just about half a kilometer from their house. i don't know how they can live in such conditions and how can others citizens live under this constant. >> also, reading your diary you write your main goal each day is to live. how has this invasion changed you and really changed all ukrainians? >> i am sorry. i can't hear you. >> how has this changed you? you wrote in your diary that this has really changed you.

i wonder how it has changed you and all of ukrainians. >> i didn't have any problems in my past. my life was perfect. 100 kilometers from my home i really understand it is the main goal to live, have a job, have friends near me so all of my friends are in the different corners of ukraine in western cities. my parents lost their job, we lost our home. i can't speak to my grandparents face-to-face. is simple things that are the main things for anyone. now, i understand other things

are not so important. >> very well put. thank you. we wish you well you and your family. better times ahead. thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. >> it is most likely the most important trip of joe biden's presidency. i will ask the former ambassador to ukraine what he is expecting with nato leaders right after this. when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths cmed him. so we made a plan to turn bath time into a biness. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual adsor at nm.com

president joe biden holding an hour-long call with the leaders of france, germany, italy and the uk. the white house say they discussed the coordinated response to the unprovoked attack. later this week the president flies to brussels with nato leaders. >> thank you. you are the perfect person to talk to about this. president biden's trip to europe may be one of the most consequential trips of his presidency. meeting with 29 other leaders thursday. what needs to come out of this meeting? >> two things simply need to come out.

the need to open this as wide as it can go on the flow of arms . in particular the javelins and the stinkers but also the larger, deeper, higher antiaircraft weapons they have been considering. open that is the first thing. there are still sanctions on the russians that are not imposed that should be imposed. there are some russian banks that are not cut off from the system. there are members who are not sanctioned. there are reports where the russians can still land with their ships. there is a lot that can be done. they should open it and tighten the noose. >> the president is also

traveling to poland that he will highlight of their efforts to welcome refugees. poland has been at the center of a number of proposals like getting those leagues to ukraine and now a peacekeeping war. what do you think is on the agenda there? >> those two things for sure. the other thing i am sure he will do is congratulate the polish people. congratulate the people on the border, near the border in indeed, around the country that have welcomed ukrainians. this has been an outpour of support. the have really been welcomed this time. that needs to be recognized and appreciated. >> i want to ask you about this russian tabloid that reported nearly 10,000 russian troops

siding russia's defense ministry. it was up on that site for about 21 hours before it was removed. it was a shocking number and also shocking it was up that long. what do you think is going on there? >> what is clearly going on as many russian soldiers are dying. many soldiers are there. they don't know why. they are not trained for it. they are running up against fierce opposition, fierce fighting from ukrainians. many are dying. you are right. this is an astounding number of russian soldiers who have died. we are approaching how many soldiers died in afghanistan in a 10 year war. is has been 26 days? this is shocking. when these soldiers go home to be buried, this is adding to the anger the russian people feel.

>> i wonder how long is that going to take for the rest of society or for the majority or at least a large enough portion to realize what is happening? if you look at what happened for the vietnam war that took years and some of them coming home extremely damaged. you look at weapons of mass destruction from the second gulf war but how long does it take to make a difference within the larger russian society? that will take quite some time. >> it may take some time. however, that is not the only thing the russians are having to put up with. they are having to deal with an incredible wrath of sanctions that is hitting each and every russian family. it is hitting the family very hard. the inflation it is causing, the exchange rate in terms of the buying power they each thought.

the inability to get the goods they are used to. every russian family is paying this price. president putin is going to have to bear that. >> ambassador, i want to get your reaction to something we heard from the pentagon spokesperson. >> we see clear evidence russian forces are committing war crimes. we are helping with collecting of evidence with that but there is investigative processes that will go on and we will let that happen. we will continue that investigative process. >> we can see with our own eyes. we heard president biden say he thinks putin is a war criminal. how does he react to this? >> that is a great question. president putin likes to think of himself as a leader, as a

great leader of a great nation. when he hears -- not only when he hears, but when the russian people here the president of the united states, they hear. they may not believe everything but they will notice it will get through to russian people. president putin is a war criminal and they will say what? they will say how can that be. they will start to ask questions. they will figure out -- the russian people will figure out what is going on in ukraine. president putin knows that. he understands that is not something he can cover up. this is a real problem for him. >> ambassador william taylor, thank you, sir. we appreciate it. >> thank you, don. good to talk to you. i am in lviv which is relatively safe. still, people fleeing constant

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russia's invasion of ukraine is nearly 1-month-old. denied, they are saying about one fourth of ukraine's population that we didn't have to search out their stories. we were on our way to shoot another story when we met them. take a look.

>> everything was shaking. we relating on the ground praying we would be safe and alive. after taking cover with her mother and her neighbors they emerged with destruction. >> a lot of glasses were broken. garage was entirely blown off. >> her mother, tatiana, had lived there for 50 years. now, and evacuee with her daughter. >> why did you come? >> because our home was destroyed. >>.martin, two cats, and a backpack of document and family photographs were all they were able to bring.

>> i think i was shocked, i couldn't even cry. i didn't feel anything. i am happy i am alive. i don't need the house. i don't need anything. i just want to be alive and safe. each day i was praying. that is actually all i need. >> are there lots of people like you? >> many. >> though war a common sight in lviv. lviv is a relatively safe city, as safe as you can be in war. usually more than 700,000 people live here. now, there are more than 200,000 new refugees. you don't have to go far to find a family or someone who has been displaced. >> even in lviv, the filing is never far away.

>> here are some air signals and we need to go to shelters and we cannot relax here fully. >> the war hasn't just changed external circumstances but it has changed something deep inside. >> i didn't know i could hate people so much but i really hate the people who came to our country and did all of that with my beloved city with my neighbors, with my friends. a lot of people lost their homes , their families, their pets. they had to flee somewhere. they didn't know if they would find shelter or not. that is awful. i really hate all that. >> without and into the fighting, her mother him so many ukrainians had no idea what to expect next. what else could change? >> i am here with one bed and with my kids and mom too with a bed and with a dog. that is all our life. >> we can't plant something.

we plan our next step for the next day. we are day today. >> what is interesting is this as a class stop hopefully. they say if the bombs keep coming in they come this way they will have to move further west. they will have to go into poland further into eastern europe. for the moment, this is where they are. day-to-day living now in the hospital after having lost their home of 50 years. so many stories like that. we will keep bringing them to you. live coverage of the war from here in lviv, ukraine. next, a history making day. the hearings from the nominee

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this is "don lemon tonight." here in ukraine, russia attacks are increasing all over the country. and president biden is confirming russia is using hypersonic missiles. russian forces bombarding a shopping center, killing at least eight people. and in mariupol, bombs are said to be falling every te